East Asia: Identities and Change in the Modern World, 1700-Present, CourseSmart eTextbook

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For one semester/quarter undergraduate courses in the History of Modern East Asia or Modern East Asian Civilizations.

In East Asia: Identities and Change in the Modern World, accomplished historian R. Keith Schoppa uses the prism of cultural identities to examine the four countries that make up the East Asian cultural sphere—China, Japan, Korea, and Vietnam—from roughly 1700 to the present. This text explores modern East Asian history through the themes of identities and change.

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“I am quite impressed by East Asia: Identities and Change in the Modern World. For the majority of professors Schoppa’s text will become and instant classic. It is a major improvement on what is available. I really like the author’s ability to examine diverse identities and to confront our simplistic views of Asia.” - David Atwill, Pennsylvania State University

“East Asia: Identities and Change in the Modern World is impressive, a great contribution to the field. It tells the story of East Asia since the seventeenth century in a lucid way that takes into account both traditional interpretations and modern scholarship. One of the strengths of the text is its willingness to take strong interpretive stands, even as it attempts a balanced portrayal. Another strength is the inclusion of Vietnam and Taiwan, regions ignored by many survey texts.” - James L. Huffman, Wittenberg University

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Table of Contents

Chapter One Basic Identities

The Chasm between the Cultures of Traditional East Asia and the Modern World

Senses of Time and Space

Basic Social Unit

Social Hierarchy

Social Goals and Patterns

State and Government

Ways of Thinking about Life and the World

Rice Culture: The World of East Asian Agriculture

Three Ways of Thought in Traditional East Asia

Confucianism

Daoism

Buddhism

Chapter Two From Multicultural Empire to Semicolony: The Qing Dynasty, 1750—1870

The Manchus

Buying into Chinese Culture

The Civil Service Examination

Rituals, Religion, and Values

Dealing with the Other

Identity and Change: The Qianlong Emperor

Identity Crisis

Emerging Problems

The Early Western Role

China and the West: Mutual Perceptions

Early-Nineteenth-Century Political and Social Instability

The Opium Tragedy and War The Unequal Treaty System

Foreign Concessions

Extraterritoriality with Consular Jurisdiction

Foreign Ambassadorial Residence

The Missionary and Cultural Imperialism

Chapter Three Rebellion and War: The Qing State in Decline, 1850—1901 The Taiping Rebellion (1851—1864): Attempts to Revolutionize Identity

The Taiping Revolution

Why the Revolution Failed

Guerrilla Warfare: The Nian Rebellion (1853—1868)

Muslims versus Chinese: Clashes in Ethnic Identity

Self-Strengthening

Russia in China

Imperialism and China's Tributary States

Loss of the Liuqin (Ry u—kyu—) Islands

Vietnam and French Colonialism

Struggling for Korea

The Sino-Chinese War, 1894—1895

The Scramble for Concessions

The Reform Movement of the 1890s

The Boxer Catastrophe

Chapter Four From Tributary Younger Brother to Colony: Vietnam, 1770s—1925

Patterns in Vietnamese History

The Tay Son Rebellion

The Nguyen Dynasty

The Reigns of the Gia-long and Mmh-mang Emperors

The Course of French Imperialism

The Nature of French Colonialism

The Vietnamese Response to French Control

Phan Boi Chau (1867—1940) and Phan Chu Trinh (1872—1926)

Key Journalists and the Identity of a Modern Vietnam

Schools and Education

Vietnamese Society in the 1920s

The Trial of Phan Boi Chau, 1925

Chapter Five The Tokugawa Regime (1603—1830): Early Modern Japan

Issues of Identity

The Tokugawa System

Controlling the Daimyo

Other Measures of Control

Tokugawa Society: The Samurai

The Floating World

Tokugawa Society: Peasants

Tokugawa Political Thought

Traditional Education

Values and Attitudes in the Wider Society

Chapter Six The Last Years of Feudal Japan, 1830—1868

The Tempo Crises (1830—1844)

The Famine

The Threat from Outside

The Reforms

The Coming of Perry and Japanese Reactions

Bakumatsu

Four Narrative Structures

Revere the Emperor, Expel the Barbarian (Sonrio-jm)

Domestic Complications

Terrorism and Civil War

The Bases of Chosh u—'s and Satsuma's Power

The End Game

The Restoration's Meaning

Chapter Seven Forging a New Japanese Identity: The Meiji Revolution

The Charter Oath and Its Revolutionary Impact

The Satsuma Rebellion

The People's Rights Movement and the Turn to Representative Government